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In 2014, BMorCreative teamed up with Springfield-resident and restaurateur John Crispens to bring his dream of a local eatery to life. Crispens was in search of a unique venue he could transform into a local hotspot, and found the perfect opportunity on Main Street. The former Akra Bros Department Store - a gem of Main Street in the 1930s - was up for grabs from it's recent pawn shop occupant. Although commercial development on Main Street was sparse, Crispens recognized the potential in restoring the structure and pumping new lifeblood into the community. He engaged fellow Springfield resident Becky Morgan and the design team at BMorCreative to help fulfill his vision, and the team was off and running.

Restoring a historic building is no small undertaking; on top of aesthetic appeal and modern amenities, restoration specialists must consider state and local preservation laws. We helped Crispens and his architectural team with the extensive design and planning required to bring th…

Designers can make your space look great, but can workplace issues be resolved through design? The focus on how people respond to and interact with their surroundings is know as Environmental Psychology, and it’s one of my favorite research subjects. I enjoyed taking this course so much that I later returned as an instructor. I found it infinitely rewarding watching my students begin to understand how a designed environment affects people. Teaching them the stuff that makes designers out of decorators; how to design purposeful spaces for learning, healing, gathering, or working.

Technically, each of these functions could take place in the same vanilla box. But the spatial considerations for a yoga studio vary greatly from those of a coffee shop. If you remove the table and chairs from a restaurant and replace it with cubicles - could it serve as an office? Perhaps, but it would suffer functionally, with a good amount of the space dominated by a now irrelevant commercial kitchen and o…

Paint and color are one of the least expensive and most impactful ways to customize your space. Color is not simply used to dress up a room. Color is used to shape energy and sway emotions. It can reflect a person’s personality, express individuality, and can a shift a person’s mood. Color can be what helps set your space apart, and make people remember you. And in a world where everyone seems to just want to fit in, we encourage you to stand out!

As designers, we take a thoughtful and precise approach to color choices and it’s all about achieving the desired effect. Did you know that the right colors can actually change the look and feel of your space? Did you know that color can actually change the way you feel? This is not some new agey hype, experts have been studying ‘Color Theory’ since the early 1400s. Color and the way it is applied, are principles considered by Interior Designers, Graphics Designers, Marketing Teams, Product Designers, and Fashion alike.

Dennis Espinosa and Ben Barber met while drinking beer at Intuition. Barber had been the head brewer at Veterans United Brewing Company. Espinosa was getting into home brewing and the craft beer scene. Now, the two are working together at Espinosa’s new Springfield brewery, Main and Six, set to open by the end of October.

“This is a passion project and something I take very seriously,” Espinosa said. “I want to do it right. Once I got into brewing and starting getting to know the brewers in town, I knew this was what I wanted to do.” Espinosa dabbled in a number of job possibilities, including law and health administration, before trying home brewing a few years ago. He began entering contests, deciding that if it was something he was good at, he would consider brewing as a career. He won the Green Lion Festival at Aardwolf in October of 2015 and Gastrofest in March of 2016. After that, plans to open a brewery began. Espinosa now co-owns Main and Six at 1636 Main St N. with his mother, C…

Becky Morgan has been running her commercial interior design company for three years and now, she's setting up a storefront of her own.

Morgan, the owner of Bmorcreative Inc., whose clients include planned restaurant and mixed-use space Crispy's and the Happy Grilled Cheese in Five Points, is opening a studio at 157 E. 8th Street soon. As a resident of Springfield, Morgan said the decision to open a storefront was a convenient move for her, but also one that she believes could give her business more visibility. "I picked the location of my studio because it's three blocks from my house. It's pretty convenient and I also have clients in Springfield," Morgan said. Morgan also said it also fits in with the majority of her projects, which are largely ones that involve historic preservation. Morgan frequently works with commercial projects, including restaurants and bars, and some residential projects. She said, even though more and more businesses are running online-o…

Becky is an absolute badass. She's a licensed commercial interior designer who specializes in historic preservation with a focus on small business, and she's located right here in the heart of Jacksonville (where she works from the attic of her historic Springfield home - how fitting.) We're so honored she took the time to give us such a comprehensive look into her day-to-day work in the Commercial Interior Design industry. Thanks, Becky! You're a total babe.The Basics:Hometown: Culpeper, VACurrent city: Jacksonville, FL (Springfield)Alma mater: The Art Institute of JacksonvilleDegree: BFA, Interior DesignFirst job: ServerHustle: Interior Designer and Founder @ Bmorcreative, Inc.The Interests:Babe you admire and why?
I am always rooting for the underdog. I enjoy learning about people’s paths to success and find it particularly interesting when they achieve it against all odds. I really admire Suze Orman. Not only do I think she gives solid financial advice, but her sto…

In a meeting with a high school counselor to prepare for college in the early 1970s, Joanna Cenci Rodriguez was told she should “go into home economics.”

But in the back of her mind, Rodriguez had always thought, “If I were a man, I would be an architect.”

Now the owner of Rodriguez Architecture in Jacksonville, she has been an architect for four decades. But when she began her career, less than 10 percent of architects were women.

Rodriguez’ story was one of many told Thursday by the Jacksonville Women Business Owners Panel, five women architects, engineers, contractors and interior designers who broke into the male-dominated construction field.

The event was hosted by Jacksonville Women in Architecture, a new organization that’s part of the Jacksonville chapter of the American Institute of Architects. WIA promotes the professional development, advancement and visibility of women in the field.

The panelists discussed topics such as how to choose and deal with clients, manage expecta…